The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) has established the Chris Nicol FLOSS Prize, which recognizes initiatives that are making it easy for people to start using free software. The prize will be awarded to a person or group doing extraordinary work to make free software accessible to ordinary computer users.

Microsoft is running "Windows 8 Campus Tour" events at many US
universities. We're inviting free software supporters,
associated with the universities in question, to mount simple
nondisruptive protests at these events.